Fort Smith Museum Opens Manifest Destiny Exhibit

Saturday

Jun 7, 2014 at 4:13 AM

The Fort Smith Museum of History will celebrate the opening of the "Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined" exhibit, which run from June 17 through Aug. 10 at the museum, 320 Rogers Ave.

The Fort Smith Museum of History will celebrate the opening of the "Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined" exhibit, which run from June 17 through Aug. 10 at the museum, 320 Rogers Ave.

The exhibit features 48 hand-colored lithographs and engravings created by 18th and 19th century artists like Karl Bodmer, George Catlin and John James Audubon.

Katie Harper, a University of Arkansas at Fort Smith associate professor, will present a program on the process of lithography and engravings at 6 p.m. June 19. Her program is part of an opening reception and will give a behind-the-scenes look at methods, history and more

The opening reception will be from 5-7 p.m. and is free with museum admission; museum admission is $5 for adults and $2 for children 6 and older. Children 5 and younger can attend free.

The exhibit is part of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance with the Arkansas Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.